martyrize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to make a martyr of.
The ancient Romans martyrized many Christians.
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to torment.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of martyrize
1400–50; late Middle English martirizen < Medieval Latin martyrizāre. See martyr, -ize
Example Sentences
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South African authorities had no desire to martyrize anybody with his name.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Senator Watson was too good a tactician to martyrize Senator Johnson and friends with this ex-treme parliamentary measure.
From Time Magazine Archive
I martyrize her, I know I do," he said to Isaacson; "but I don't believe it's my fault.
From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe
Very well, then! she would go to Brudenstein; she would not martyrize herself by being with a man on crutches!
From Halcyone by Glyn, Elinor
But he’d martyrize himself, I knew, by refusing it, even though I made it.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
Those who know Parisian life will readily understand how a woman of her temperament suffered, and was martyrized at heart by the scantiness of her pecuniary means.
From Bureaucracy by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
It is no longer so very laudable for a young man to pay his way through college; and Morris Leighton had done this easily and without caring to be praised or martyrized for doing so.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
And in the man's eyes she no longer saw the savage Julian, but an intensely suffering creature, a creature martyrized by destiny.
From The Price of Love by Bennett, Arnold
He still martyrized himself in his thoughts of Isabel.
From Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Nicholson, Meredith
Archie and Adelle were hungry at this period for more money and felt themselves martyrized by the whim of an ill-natured old man who had arbitrarily made them wait to be wholly happy.
From Clark's Field by Herrick, Robert
For some reason—perhaps because they thought their case against him absolutely secure and wanted to avoid any appearance of unfairness or of martyrizing him—this restriction had not yet been laid upon him.
From The Air Trust by England, George Allan
She would be capable of martyrizing the whole world to her sense of duty, her damnable, insane sense of duty....
From The Roll-Call by Bennett, Arnold
Oh, no," the doctor shook her head; "young couples are always martyrizing themselves for these events.
From The Nest Builder by Hale, Beatrice Forbes-Robertson
I don’t want to stop you martyrizing yourself in making a mountain out of a mole-hill.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
She thought of how these men, these Brodricks, behaved to genius wherever they met it; how, among them, they had driven poor Jinny all but mad, martyrizing her in the name of fact.
From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May
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